Oak Help Manager

A UIM Help Text Management System

Fast Facts Latest Release:  H2.2 Last Update:      May 2001 Price:                   $995.00 Source Code:     Not Available

Oak Help Manager makes window help text as easy to create and maintain as typing. The Oak Help Manager creates UIM (User Interface Manager) window help text, the kind used by IBM on the AS/400. The Oak Help Manager reads your DSPF source and prompts for help information, inserting all necessary keywords into your DSPF source and building UIM help text. Once entered, the help information can also be printed out for user documentation.

Oak Help Manager helps increase productivity on your system in two ways. First of all, Oak Help Manager allows on-line, field-level, windows-based, UIM help text to be created quicker and easier than ever thought possible. Second, because help text is easier to create, there will be more of it, thereby increasing the productivity of your users as well as your technical staff.

Functions and features of Oak Help Manager include the following:

• SAA compliant of the AS/400 whether using regular terminals or PCs.
• Completely native to the AS/400.
• Creates UIM window help text.
• Creates help for display files and commands.
• Creates help text for subfiles.
• Creates file, record and field level help text.
• Calculates help area starting and ending positions.
• Inserts all help tags into your DDS source.
• Simplifies hypertext linking of UIM help test.
• Easily creates search indexes for UIM help text.
• Uses help text to create user documentation.
• Powerful word processing capabilities for help text entry and update.
• Full-screen editor with over 28 commands.
• PC-like word wrap while entering help text.
• Add/remove words and phrases with automatic text adjustment.
• Spell checker containing over 78,000 words in its spelling dictionary.
• Does NOT require Office Vision (OV/400).
• Does NOT require any programming knowledge.
   

Oak Help Manager is a copyrighted product of Oak Software, Inc.

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